well I got the job and will be starting my career as a photography tutor next year as the company I'm working for is now putting together 2014 holiday brochure. I will be taking clients on holidays around the UK in my fist year then in 2015 I'll be let loose around the world, can't wait ! I have also been booked for 2 more weddings for this year, so things are moving on nicely I feel.

I am happily settled in at my girlfriends house now, so have given up my independence for something better..... a beautiful partnership. I can honestly say I am in one of the most happiest times of my life right now

because of the transition of moving in to Vikki's house I haven't been out with my camera much or even been editing outstanding work so the number of favorites of my images stands at 253 ! so I can't bring myself to go through such a large number currently with work commitments as they are, so I'm thanking all those friends, watchers and deviants who have faved my work lately. I promise I won't let it get this way again and will thank you all personally as I normally do !

here is this years first feature !
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hello all !
hope you are all well and had a great Christmas and New Year. so things are moving fast for me so far this year. in the last week I have moved in with my beautiful girlfriend Vikki and we are very happy living over the brush !

THE BIG NEWS IS.......

I am attending an Interview over 2 days this Friday and Saturday with a activity holiday company , well it's actually a cooperative. People are members and they can go on a number of different activity holidays in the UK and across the world. The assessment will take place at a country house about 2 hours drive from my home and I will have to give a presentation on the first day and then lead a workshop on the second day. If I'm successful I will be leading photographic activity holidays firstly in the UK, then in a year or so if all goes well I will be able to take clients on holiday to photograph vistas and people across the globe and be paid for the pleasure

OTHER NEWS.........

I've been doing more wedding photography as part of my aim to become a professional photographer, it's not my first love but it pays ! It's the hardest photography job I have done, you can not stop it, there is no sorry I missed the first kiss can you do it again or can you just hold of saying " I do " so I can get the right angle !! so you either get it first time or you don't. I like reportage style of wedding photography, not the forced, stayed old fashioned style of wedding photography of the past, although you have to take formal shots the trick is to not make them so contrived.

So to promote my wedding photography I'm creating a folder for it. so I have a portfolio for potential clients can see my work.

I would just like to wish all my friends, watchers and visitors to my page a very merry Christmas and a happy new year ! I hope 2013 will be good to us all best wishes from Degsy xxx

well here we are again kids ! I've been to Croatia this summer in August so I'm just going to start the stack off with 5 shots that I feel some the time up for me ! thanks to my beautiful girlfriend for making the holiday special x we stayed in Pula in the north for a week then went to Dubrovnik in the south by overnight ferry that sailed through the islands of the coast. we slept on the deck under the stars it was so warm, I got drunk and sang with the Italians ! Oh I'm going with a monochrome thing this time. Hope you enjoy it
there my memories of Croatia,
just like to say to all the artist encompassed in the Journal, outstanding work ! x
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hello play mates !! time for a update and for another feature thing I feel. I have 2 pictures hanging in my local town Gallery & Museum, the place is called the Williamson. they are part of a summer festival of art, one of the largest of it's type in England, so very happy with that. Just hope the sell ! these are the pictures in question

I have also had my first student pass his dan grade (black belt) in go ju ryu karate. I 've had my own dojo for almost 4 years now and it was a mile stone to have a student that I've put time and effort into to get to this point and pass first time. so a very big well done to Joe and I hope the first of many !

next is, I'm off to Croatia in one month for a 2 week holiday with my beautiful girlfriend Vikki we fly into Pula in the north of the country and stay 6 days there. Pula is about 2 hours by sea from Venice so we are hopping to get across to see the city while we are in Pula. then on the sixth day we head by ferry which takes a day and a night down the coast, through the many islands that dot the Croatian coast and stay another 6 days in Dubrovnik. we have booked an apartment above the city, with an amazing view from the bedroom window of the whole city below. we can't wait, this holiday is so much needed !!

right time for some more pictures from my favorites, again just a mash up of images that have caught my eye. I have decided to make this feature a even 100. Hope you enjoy !!?
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till next time, peace and love !

well hello !
things are going ok at the moment. I have bought a new 35mm f1.8 via eBay, my first through this portal and was pleasantly surprised at the quality of the lens even though second hand, so will be making other purchases via ebay I think. I have to weddings to shoot this year in August and October which is ok and will bring some cash in for more kit, if I can get a couple more for this year it would be good but slowly filling my portfolio is ok for know. Wedding photography isn't the most important type of photography to me but it pays !! I'm planing to get my own dedicated photography website up toward the end of the year to advertise my work more and hope to concentrate on landscape and portraiture mostly. I'm entering 2 pieces of work to a exhibition run yearly at my towns art gallery & museum called The Williamson, I have had a couple of second places (highly commended) at successive exhibitions in previous years and sold both pieces last year for £150 a piece, so hoping to do the same this year too. I'm planing for a 2 week holiday in Croatia at the and of July with my beautiful girlfriend Vikki which should provide plenty of photography opportunities. oh yes and I have reached 102 deviants watching me not a huge number but a mile stone lets say so thank you all.

so now I'm going to do a featured thing of images that I particularly love from my favorites gallery, haven't done this before and don't know when Ill do it again but there is a first time for everything and maybe I'll get the bug. there is no theme and it's a mish mash of images but they all have caught my eye for one reason or another !so if you get featured well done and happy days, peace and love brethren peace and love !!!




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I have been out and bought an nice Nikorr 50mm f/1.8 G-AF prime lens and a MB-D11 multi-power battery pack/side grip, got the grip as used at £160 instead of the new price of £ 250 ! lens was only $109 with a UV filter it all came to £298 bargain me thinks and I'm very happy with them both. just need a Nikorr 85 mm f/1.8 AF soon to make me feel even more happy !

I have been out and bought an nice Nikorr 50mm f/1.8 G-AF prime lens and a MB-D11 multi-power battery pack/side grip, got the grip as used at £160 instead of the new price of £ 250 ! lens was only $109 with a UV filter it all came to £298 bargain me thinks and I'm very happy with them both. just need a Nikorr 85 mm f/1.8 AF soon to make me feel even more happy !

I picked up my new Nikon d7000 today and can't wait to get out and try it and also found that I had sold both the photographs I had in a exhibition at the Williamson Gallery and Museum in my home town of Birkenhead for £300, happy days ! Feels so good to be making money from my photography at last.

I bought a new camera yesterday a beautiful Nikon D 7000 can't wait to get my hands on it on Wednesday ans get to play properly next weekend !

hello ! I am currently loving being at college, the course I'm enrolled on is digital photography and I'm learning all the computer editing stuff I haven't been able to work out on my own ! I'm not good with reading tutorials and the like I need someone to show me what to do and I'm away then. It's a ten week course 3 hours on a Wednesday night, and I've already signed up for the advanced course when this one is finished, which will concentrate on studio work and breaking into the industry professionally. I also bought a new pro tripod this week and a very nice polarising filter. I'm also toying with the thought of stating a features thing here as I have amassed a lot of favourites and have quite a number of watchers so I think it might be the time to start doing the feature thing I passing some of the images that I think are eye catching or thought provoking ! so I hope if your a watcher you mare in the featured artist list or you like what I put in the feature.

well there are certain mile stones in your life and one is your farther dying !
RIP Dad, Douglas Desmond Jones (Acid) 1/12/1924 to 12/1/2011 . wouldn't go till he was ready, as always !!

I have returned from Marrakesh after my flight was cancelled on Saturday the 4th of December and had to stay on and wait for another 3 days for a flight home which was quite stressful despite it being sunny and warm there and -10 degrees at home in England ! I came home to 7000+ deviations which I just didn't have the time or energy to look at ! so, sorry to all those who I watch or deviants who's deviations have been sent via groups for deleting your images without getting a chance to see them !

well it's here ! I'm off to Marrakesh, Morocco tomorrow and hoping to get lots of great photographs, so happy days ! my dad is very very poorly and will be lucky if he sees Christmas but he will at least see his 86th birthday on Wednesday the 1st of December. work is very tough at the moment, lots of cut backs and ward closures, job losses and reductions in patient services ! staff balloting for industrial action. crucial times but really need this break to keep sane ! training is great my dojo is full and my students all train like dogs ! black belt grading the weekend I'm back.

well I bought a Nikon D90 with a 18-105 lens and also a 70-300 zoom macro also ! I'm loving it even though I haven't had much time to play with it yet ! but I'm very excited ! I'm am looking forward to taking it with me when I go to Marrakesh, Morocco at the end of November with my beautiful girlfriend Vikki. I shot my first commercial wedding in August which was hard work, not used to having to to work fast and get the shot without holding up the ceremony and getting everything the bride and groom wanted and keeping everyone else happy!

well hello ! I thought it was time I actually told people what I've been up to of late. I have had 4 pieces of work up in my local art gallery and museum 2 photographs and to pieces of art work as part of an open exhibition. it takes place once a year in May and I have been lucky enough to have my work accepted every year I have entered.

I have been in Manchester at conference for work this past week and it's an interesting city if you ever get the chance to visit. The good thing was I bought a new macro lens and flash for my camera, the best thing about getting the macro is I can start a project I've wanted to get on the go for ages. This is to photograph my frog collection ! so they will be going in the gallery soon but before that I will be posting some of the shots I got of Manchester while at the conference, even though some shit head did to try and mug me for my camera ! but it bounced with only a couple of scratches and I punched the fucker in the head and knocked him out !

We are every where and no where
All at the same time
But never in the same place twice
We are those who see with vision
And yet we are also those
Who live in the shadow of others
We are the old man wheezing
The child that plays in the rain
The hater, lover
Sister and brother
We are the wind driven snow
The sun that bakes the desert land
We are everything and nothing
The mountain high and but a grain of sand
We are the universe
We are the macro verse
We are the front the back and the reverse
We are the donut and the hole
All at the same time
We are saint, sinner
And the speakers of rime
We are Yin and Yang
Go and Ju
We are dimasazanshin
And we be you.

Degsy Jones 1999 